Lovely area, very runnable, pretty straightforward.
I was rubbish. 30th/41. Comically bad in places. Routegadget will be good fun.
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http://www.bko.routegadget.co.uk/rg2/#107&cour...Started well. bit tentative to 3, went round paths probably too much, but fine with that.
Problems started at 4 - thrown by the 'scattered trees' that turned out to be open. Not really an excuse - plenty of things shoudv'e told me. Relocated on another control - 90s.
Then 5 - went round some dense undergrowth rather than through - and then didnt really have a plan an wandered about a bit - rubbish - 60s.
Bit of a wobble on 9 - saw control early but thought it was in the wrong reentrant so carried on - unfortunately there was only 1 reentrant. 60s
10-16 good apart from 30s at 14 thinking was at 15.
17 was where the real mess started. This was map turn over point and I think I got so focussed on that that I lost both where I was and what I was doing. +3 mins 30.
Bad route to 19; went up and down uneccessary hill. 20-22 good.
23 was the icing on the cake - for some reason, thought a path up a steep hill was a flat path at a different angle 200m away and so was looking in the wrong place for ages. Eventually realised and found the right control immediately. What an idiot. +5 mins.
I also lost time on 24 (another 2 mins 30) but this one was exclusively not my fault and I'm surprised no-one else has mentioned it - control 240. The control description lists it as a ditch bend, and the control on the ground was in a ditch bend.
BUT there is no ditch on the map. The circle is on nothing, very slightly offset from a knoll. So I was looking on the knolls. I don't think this is unreasonable. I'd definitely have complained if I hadn't already lost 15mins by this point.
25 to finish fine.
I make that +15mins with most of them being my fault; is that reasonable? 77:50 is probably about right; not a great run anyway really but passable.
Shame that I didn't take advantage of such a nice area. Lesson - avoid parties the night before, and having to get up really early to start really early to get back early to goto more parties. Basically no parties.